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Catnip is known for its ability to make cats crazy, and it is clearly shown by the videos on the web that have the highest levels of bad.

A team of researchers has pointed out how mint makes a chemical mascara that makes cats in this exotic state.

The substance that stimulates this state of euphoria is called the cat, the "nepetalactone", a kind of chemical called "turpin", also found in ginger, clove and cannabis.

Researchers believe that understanding the production of "nepetalactone" can help them recreate the way plants mix with other chemicals, such as phenplastin, used in chemotherapy. This can help create more effective and faster drugs useful in the fight against cancer.

Neptalactone does not affect all cats, but it does stimulate many, many studies have shown that two-thirds of them are susceptible to the effects of catnip.

In a two-step process, the "turpine" in catnip is quite different from the other mint family. It is produced by an enzyme in a two-step process: "The enzyme activates a precursor compound, which is then removed by a second enzyme to produce the substance of interest."

Researchers also predict that something similar is happening in cancer drugs such as vincristine, vinblastine, malagasy, Catharanthus roseus, olive and snapdragon.

By considering the process of producing "nepetalactones", scientists think that it can be modeled to understand how other plants make chemicals.

In particular, they believe that this can be applied to "vinblastine", used in chemotherapy, thus legislating on the process of "harvesting" drugs.

"We have made great strides in understanding how to make catnip crazy," said Benjamin Lechman, who led the study in a statement. We plan to use this process to build useful vehicles that can be used in the treatment of diseases such as cancer. "